Pelagianism / Semi-Pelagianism
Watchtower of Errors: doctrines named clearly from the safety of truth so they can be resisted.
Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism make nature, will, discipline, or even the first movement toward God sufficient apart from . They flatter the serious soul by making holiness feel self-produced.
What This Error Does
It turns salvation into human achievement. It can look clean: sound books, dress, severe habits, anti-modernist conclusions, and disciplined households. But if the soul secretly believes it has made itself holy, has entered the foundation.
receives from above and therefore labors. flatters man's power and calls it holiness.
How To Respond
Confess that precedes, heals, elevates, and enables every saving movement. Fight seriously, but end every victory in thanksgiving, not self-praise.